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Notes ● 1954. UCLA, for example, has a detox clinic popular among Saudi Arabian patients.5. Switzerland has a liberal policy on euthanasia, and a right to die charity,Dignitas, opened a foreign branch in Germany (Economist, October 15, 2005,p. 59). Also, the Lausanne University Hospital has announced that, from early2006, it will allow patients to take their own lives on its premises (EthicsBriefings, Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (2006): p. 248.6. Goodrich and Goodrich, “Health-care Tourism,” p. 107.7. Philippa Hunter-Jones, “Managing Cancer: The Role of Holiday Taking,”Journal of Travel Medicine 10 (2003): p. 170.8. Joan Henderson, “Healthcare Tourism in Southeast Asia,” Tourism Review International7, no. 3–4 (2004): p. 113.9. Johanson, “Health, Wellness Focus,” p. 24.10. New York Times, December 30, 2005.11. Kim Ross, “Health Tourism: An Overview,” Hospitality Net Article, December27, 2001, www.hospitalitynet.org/news/4010521.html, accessed February9, 2006.12. Philippa Hunter-Jones, “Cancer and Tourism,” Annals of Tourism Research 32,no. 1 (2005): p. 70.13. Martin Mowforth and Ian Munt, Tourism and Sustainability: New Tourism inthe Third World (London: Routledge, 2003), p. 26.14. J. Moorhead, “Sun, Sea, Sand, and Surgery,” Guardian (London), May 11,2004.15. Jayata Sharma, “The T Factor in Indian Dentistry,” Express Healthcare Management,www.expresshealthcaremgmt.com/200608/market01.shtml, accessed September9, 2006.16. The study included some 17,000 travelers from 1996 to 2004. It was reportedby David Constantine, “Travelers’ Illnesses: The Souvenirs Nobody Wants,”New York Times, January 17, 2006.17. Wattana Janjaroen and Siripen Supakankunti, “International Trade in HealthServices in the Millennium: the Case of Thailand,” in WHO, Trade in HealthServices: Global, Regional and Country Perspectives (Washington, DC: PanAmerican Health Organization, 2002), p. 97.18. Francisco Leon, “The Case of the Chilean Health System, 1983–2000,” inWHO, Trade in Health Services.19. Economist, December 10, 2005, p. 73.20. Philippe Legrain, Open World: The Truth About Globalization (London: Abacus,2002), p. 108.21. There is demand for a new type of tourism—hurricane tours—for storm chasingexperiences in southern Florida. Miami Herald, March 23, 2006.22. Cited in Donald Lundberg, Mink Stavenga, and M. Krishnamoorthy, TourismEconomics (New York: Wiley, 1995), p. 3.23. Johanson, “Health, Wellness Focus,” p. 26.24. Indepth: Health Care, “Medical Tourism: Need Surgery, Will Travel,” CBCNews Online, June 18, 2005.